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A major legal win for Black Mississippians that was supposed to lead to new elections for the state Supreme Court was wiped away.

Mississippi State and Ole Miss are competing in separate super regionals for college baseball.

Fiscal management problems may cost SR1 College Preparatory and STEM Academy its charter. Some parents of students who attend the Canton charter school questioned what’s going on and why.

Events at the Jackson Zoo drew families from across the metro area – from Pocahontas to Pearl – including many who said they couldn’t remember the last time they’d visited. About 175 people went to the zoo last weekend.

Former Mississippi student: A phenomenon that ends in fourth-grade classrooms isn’t a Mississippi Miracle. It is a head start that we keep failing to build on.

National NAACP President and CEO Derrick Johnson talks with Mississippi Today about GOP redistricting in Mississippi and across the South, and on his organization’s call for a boycott of major college athletic programs in states pushing to weaken Black voting power through gerrymandering.

A federal judge is allowing appointment of members to a new Metro Jackson Water Authority Board but is barring the board from taking any action.

Offensive mastermind Mike Leach is among the nominees for the 2027 College Football Hall of Fame class. Leach’s last job was as head coach at Mississippi State. He was 61 when he died in 2022.

The Mississippi Public Service Commission declined to rule on Prado AI’s proposal to build a private power plant and AI industrial campus, saying it lacked enough information.

Hinds County District Attorney Jody Owens, former Jackson Mayor Chokwe Antar Lumumba and former Jackson City Council Member Aaron Banks declined to plead guilty by a federal judge’s Friday deadline on charges they face in an FBI operation that roiled Jackson officials in 2024. But a law professor says they are allowed to change their plea at any time.